California State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten

CA.1.0. Dance: Artistic Perception: Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to Dance: Students perceive and respond, using the elements of dance. They demonstrate movement skills, process sensory information, and describe movement, using the vocabulary of dance.

1.1. Development of Motor Skills and Technical Expertise: Build the range and capacity to move in a variety of ways.

1.2. Development of Motor Skills and Technical Expertise: Perform basic locomotor skills (e.g., walk, run, gallop, jump, hop, and balance).

1.3. Comprehension and Analysis of Dance Elements: Understand and respond to a wide range of opposites (e.g., high/low, forward/backward, wiggle/freeze).

1.4. Development of Dance Vocabulary: Perform simple movements in response to oral instructions (e.g., walk, turn, reach).

CA.2.0. Dance: Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in Dance: Students apply choreographic principles, processes, and skills to create and communicate meaning through the improvisation, composition, and performance of dance.

2.1. Creation/Invention of Dance Movements: Create movements that reflect a variety of personal experiences (e.g., recall feeling happy, sad, angry, excited).

2.2. Creation/Invention of Dance Movements: Respond to a variety of stimuli (e.g., sounds, words, songs, props, and images) with original movements.

2.3. Creation/Invention of Dance Movements: Respond spontaneously to different types of music, rhythms, and sounds.

CA.3.0. Dance: Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of Dance: Students analyze the function and development of dance in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to dance and dancers.

3.1. Development of Dance: Name and perform folk/traditional dances from the United States and other countries.

CA.4.0. Dance: Aesthetic Valuing: Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works of Dance: Students critically assess and derive meaning from works of dance, performance of dancers, and original works according to the elements of dance and aesthetic qualities.

4.1. Description, Analysis, and Criticism of Dance: Explain basic features that distinguish one kind of dance from another (e.g., speed, force/energy use, costume, setting, music).

CA.5.0. Dance: Connections, Relationships, Applications: Connecting and Applying What Is Learned in Dance to Learning in Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers: Students apply what they learn in dance to learning across subject areas. They develop competencies and creative skills in problem solving, communication, and management of time and resources that contribute to lifelong learning and career skills. They also learn about careers in and related to dance.

5.1. Connections and Applications Across Disciplines: Give examples of the relationship between everyday movement in school and dance movement.

CA.1.0. Music: Artistic Perception: Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to Music: Students read, notate, listen to, analyze, and describe music and other aural information, using the terminology of music.

1.1. Read and Notate Music: Use icons or invented symbols to represent beat.

1.2. Listen to, Analyze, and Describe Music: Identify and describe basic elements in music (e.g., high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft, beat).

CA.2.0. Music: Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music: Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing a varied repertoire of music. They compose and arrange music and improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments, using digital/electronic technology when appropriate.

2.1. Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills: Use the singing voice to echo short melodic patterns.

2.2. Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills: Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.

2.3. Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills: Play instruments and move or verbalize to demonstrate awareness of beat, tempo, dynamics, and melodic direction.

2.4. Compose, Arrange, and Improvise: Create accompaniments, using the voice or a variety of classroom instruments.

CA.3.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of Music: Students analyze the role of music in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting cultural diversity as it relates to music, musicians, and composers.

3.1. Role of Music: Identify the various uses of music in daily experiences.

3.2. Diversity of Music: Sing and play simple singing games from various cultures.

3.3. Diversity of Music: Use a personal vocabulary to describe voices and instruments from diverse cultures.

3.4. Diversity of Music: Use developmentally appropriate movements in responding to music from various genres and styles (rhythm, melody).

CA.4.0. Music: Aesthetic Valuing: Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works of Music: Students critically assess and derive meaning from works of music and the performance of musicians according to the elements of music, aesthetic qualities, and human responses.

4.1. Derive Meaning: Create movements that correspond to specific music.

4.2. Derive Meaning: Identify, talk about, sing, or play music written for specific purposes (e.g., work song, lullaby).

CA.5.0. Music: Connections, Relationships, Applications: Connecting and Applying What Is Learned in Music to Learning in Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers: Students apply what they learn in music across subject areas. They develop competencies and creative skills in problem solving, communication, and management of time and resources that contribute to lifelong learning and career skills. They also learn about careers in and related to music.

5.1. Connections and Applications: Use music, together with dance, theatre, and the visual arts, for storytelling.

5.2. Careers and Career-Related Skills: Identify and talk about the reasons artists have for creating dances, music, theatre pieces, and works of visual art.

CA.1.0. Theatre: Artistic Perception: Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to Theatre: Students observe their environment and respond, using the elements of theatre. They also observe formal and informal works of theatre, film/video, and electronic media and respond, using the vocabulary of theatre.

1.1. Development of the Vocabulary of Theatre: Use the vocabulary of theatre, such as actor, character, cooperation, setting, the five senses, and audience, to describe theatrical experiences.

1.2. Comprehension and Analysis of the Elements of Theatre: Identify differences between real people and imaginary characters.

CA.2.0. Theatre: Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in Theatre: Students apply processes and skills in acting, directing, designing, and script writing to create formal and informal theatre, film/videos, and electronic media productions and to perform in them.

2.1. Development of Theatrical Skills: Perform imitative movements, rhythmical activities, and theatre games (freeze, statues, and mirrors).

2.2. Creation/Invention in Theatre: Perform group pantomimes and improvisations to retell familiar stories.

2.3. Creation/Invention in Theatre: Use costumes and props in role playing.

CA.3.0. Theatre: Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of Theatre: Students analyze the role and development of theatre, film/video, and electronic media in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting diversity as it relates to theatre.

3.1. Role and Cultural Significance of Theatre: Retell or dramatize stories, myths, fables, and fairy tales from various cultures and times.

3.2. Role and Cultural Significance of Theatre: Portray different community members, such as firefighters, family, teachers, and clerks, through role-playing activities.

CA.4.0. Theatre: Aesthetic Valuing: Responding to, Analyzing, and Critiquing Theatrical Experiences: Students critique and derive meaning from works of theatre, film/video, electronic media, and theatrical artists on the basis of aesthetic qualities.

4.1. Critical Assessment of Theatre: Respond appropriately to a theatrical experience as an audience member.

4.2. Derivation of Meaning from Works of Theatre: Compare a real story with a fantasy story.

CA.5.0. Theatre: Connections, Relationships, Applications: Connecting and Applying What Is Learned in Theatre, Film/Video, and Electronic Media to Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers: Students apply what they learn in theatre, film/video, and electronic media across subject areas. They develop competencies and creative skills in problem solving, communication, and time management that contribute to lifelong learning and career skills. They also learn about careers in and related to theatre.

5.1. Connections and Applications: Dramatize information from other content areas. Use movement and voice, for example, to reinforce vocabulary, such as fast, slow, in, on, through, over, under.

5.2. Careers and Career-Related Skills: Demonstrate the ability to participate cooperatively in performing a pantomime or dramatizing a story.

CA.1.0. Visual Arts: Artistic Perception: Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to the Visual Arts: Students perceive and respond to works of art, objects in nature, events, and the environment. They also use the vocabulary of the visual arts to express their observations.

1.1. Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts Vocabulary: Recognize and describe simple patterns found in the environment and works of art.

1.2. Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts Vocabulary: Name art materials (e.g., clay, paint, and crayons) introduced in lessons.

1.3. Analyze Art Elements and Principles of Design: Identify the elements of art (line, color, shape/form, texture, value, space) in the environment and in works of art, emphasizing line, color, and shape/form.

CA.2.0. Visual Arts: Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Visual Arts: Students apply artistic processes and skills, using a variety of media to communicate meaning and intent in original works of art.

2.1. Skills, Processes, Materials, and Tools: Use lines, shapes/forms, and colors to make patterns.

2.2. Skills, Processes, Materials, and Tools: Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of tools and processes, such as the use of scissors, glue, and paper in creating a three-dimensional construction.

2.3. Skills, Processes, Materials, and Tools: Make a collage with cut or torn paper shapes/forms.

2.4. Communication and Expression Through Original Works of Art: Paint pictures expressing ideas about family and neighborhood.

2.5. Communication and Expression Through Original Works of Art: Use lines in drawings and paintings to express feelings.

2.6. Communication and Expression Through Original Works of Art: Use geometric shapes/forms (circle, triangle, square) in a work of art.

2.7. Create a three-dimensional form, such as a real or imaginary animal.

CA.3.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of the Visual Arts: Students analyze the role and development of the visual arts in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to the visual arts and artists.

3.1. Role and Development of the Visual Arts: Describe functional and non-utilitarian art seen in daily life; that is, works of art that are used versus those that are only viewed.

3.2. Role and Development of the Visual Arts: Identify and describe works of art that show people doing things together.

3.3. Diversity of the Visual Arts: Look at and discuss works of art from a variety of times and places.

CA.4.0. Visual Arts: Aesthetic Valuing: Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works in the Visual Arts: Students analyze, assess, and derive meaning from works of art, including their own, according to the elements of art, the principles of design, and aesthetic qualities.

4.1. Derive Meaning: Discuss their own works of art, using appropriate art vocabulary (e.g., color, shape/form, texture).

4.2. Derive Meaning: Describe what is seen (including both literal and expressive content) in selected works of art.

4.3. Make Informed Judgments: Discuss how and why they made a specific work of art.

4.4. Make Informed Judgments: Give reasons why they like a particular work of art they made, using appropriate art vocabulary.

CA.5.0. Visual Arts: Connections, Relationships, Applications: Connecting and Applying What Is Learned in the Visual Arts to Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers: Students apply what they learn in the visual arts across subject areas. They develop competencies and creative skills in problem solving, communication, and management of time and resources that contribute to lifelong learning and career skills. They also learn about careers in and related to the visual arts.

5.1. Connections and Applications: Draw geometric shapes/forms (e.g., circles, squares, triangles) and repeat them in dance/movement sequences.

5.2. Connections and Applications: Look at and draw something used every day (e.g., scissors, toothbrush, fork) and describe how the object is used.

5.3. Visual Literacy: Point out images (e.g., photographs, paintings, murals, ceramics, sculptures) and symbols found at home, in school, and in the community, including national and state symbols and icons.

5.4. Careers and Career-Related Skills: Discuss the various works of art (e.g., ceramics, paintings, sculpture) that artists create and the type of media used.